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Dongen is a municipality and a village in the southern Netherlands. In the past it was home to a profitable Leather industry, to which a few old shoe factories in the town's older sections still testify. The town is formed near a small river called "Donge" (about ten feet across), the water of which was used extensively for the leather industry. The Aerts Automobile was built here in 1899.
Usage examples of "dongen".
Timmins, William, 53, 1942, 1950, 13, 1947, 1950 Di Fate, Vincent, 49, 1969, 2003, 184, 1969, 2004 van Dongen, Henry R.
Kees van Dongen in fashionable Kensington, of rich old bags with dogs as fur wraps, worn as decorative mortality.
Anatole France, who must at least have been an intelligent man and who was fond of indulging in irony, having sat for the painter Van Dongen for his portrait, not only refused to accept the picture once it was finished but forbade it to be shown in public.